LANSDALE — An assault charge against a Lansdale man in connection with a “date night” in August that allegedly turned violent was withdrawn Tuesday afternoon at the behest of the victim in the case.

In a settlement of prosecution inside District Judge Harold Borek’s Lansdale courtroom, two summary charges — harassment and public drunkenness — against Paul Wintje, 50, of the 200 block of East Fifth Street, in connection with the incident were moved from criminal proceedings to non-traffic citations.

Lansdale police said that in the early morning hours of Aug. 24, officers were dispatched to an alley near Wintje’s residence for a reported fight during which a man was seen dragging a woman through the alley.

The woman, who had a swollen right eye, was bleeding from the mouth and nose and was “visibly upset,” according to court documents, told officers that she and Wintje had gone out to an area bar on their “date night” on Friday, Aug. 23, where Wintje had been picking fights with her, police said.

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The couple left the bar shortly before 1 a.m. and got into an argument in Wintje’s truck, and when the woman tried to get out of the vehicle at the intersection of West Seventh Street and Line Street, Wintje reportedly backhanded her in the face “more than once,” police said.

After the pair got to the area near Wintje’s residence, police said, the woman told officers that she told Wintje she wanted to go home, but when she got out of the truck, Wintje held her on the ground and hit her in the mouth “one too many times.”

The woman told police that Wintje believed she planned to walk to another man’s house, at which point he grabbed her and tried to drag her into his house until officers arrived at the scene, according to court documents.

Wintje was taken into custody and administered a breath test that indicated a .127 blood alcohol concentration, police said.

He was arraigned later on Aug. 24 before District Judge Margaret Hunsicker of Norristown on a misdemeanor simple assault charge and the two summary charges; Hunsicker set bail at $10,000 unsecured and ordered Wintje to have no contact with the victim in the case.

In court on Tuesday, Borek expressed reservations about accepting a recommendation from the commonwealth — derived from a pre-hearing conference between Borek, prosecutors and Wintje’s attorney — to withdraw the assault charge and settle the case.

“Frankly, I have a high degree of concern in doing that,” Borek said, as Wintje and the victim in the case — who had been subpoenaed to testify but told the court she was reluctant to testify — sat listening at separate tables.

Explaining that no-contact bail conditions sometimes give people time to “re-learn what normal communications skills are” and to “identify anger and alcohol and/or drug problems, all of which combine to make this one of the more frequent incidents this court sees,” Borek said that since it had been only two months since the alleged incident took place, he wasn’t “real comfortable” accepting the settlement recommendation.

And, he sternly told Wintje, “My standard bail when there is injury with alcohol involved is a $25,000 cash bail, to make sure I have the perpetrator’s attention.”

Turning to the victim, Borek suggested she “give it some time” before considering getting back together with Wintje. Borek then said he would accept the offer of settlement, turning to the victim again and asking her, “You understand that once it’s done it can’t be reversed?”

“Yes,” she replied.

And with that, the remaining summary charges were moved to non-traffic citations — for which Wintje will have to pay fines — and the matter was closed.